August 30th, 2011 I’m hardly the first person to weigh in on this, but I thought that I’d point out this delightful little story from Stephen Hackett at forkbombr.net. The long and short of it is that Stephen called out douchemonger extraordinaire Seth Weintraub, along with his pathetic little ass-minion Mark Gurman over their horrifically tasteless coverage of Steve Jobs’ health. Seth, in a move that is sure to make Mike Arrington proud, registered forkbombr.com and proceeded to redirect it to a variety of sites. As of the the writing of this post it currently points to a page displaying the message “do onto others”. Continue reading On the Infinite Shittiness of 9to5 Mac
August 26th, 2011 I was debating joining my mythical compatriot the Macalope and adding my own frothing rage over this vilely offensive pile of syphilitic jackal dung when I made the mistake of meandering down into the comments. I was not surprised to find the usual collection of “hur dur Apple is so evil” bullshit, but what really caught my eye was a magnificent example of the art of utter what-the-fuckery by some jackass with the handle of “joblot”. Continue reading What the Literal Fuck (Steve Jobs Resignation Edition)
August 25th, 2011 It seems unlikely that anyone reading this would be unaware of the news, but Steve Jobs announced his resignation as Apple’s CEO yesterday afternoon. The glaring idiocy is already spewing forth from the fucktards in the pundit class, but I’ll save my vitriol for a later point. If nothing else I’m sure me and the two other jackasses will rant about it on the next Angry Mac Bastards Old Timey Revival Hour. For the time being, however, I’d just like to thank Mr. Jobs for the amazing work he has done at Apple. On behalf of everyone who just wants their computers and gadgets to get the fuck out of their way and let them get shit done; we appreciate how Apple, under Jobs’ leadership, has made computing suck a little bit less.
August 19th, 2011 Chad Olson wrote a nice little article today deconstructing yet another stupid iPad 3 “news” report. One thing at Chad wrote jumped out at me because it’s something that I’ve been meaning to rant about for some time. Chad asks: How is it news that Apple is working on a new iPad anyways? Do people think that Apple just slaps the thing together the weekend before announcing it? Continue reading Pundit Product Life Cycle
August 19th, 2011 Great googly-moogly this week has been one hell of a ride. What with Google announcing plans to buy Motorola Mobility, and now with HP announcing that they’re exiting the PC business and killing off their WebOS hardware. While I can’t say I’ll shed a tear for the PC hardware, I am a bit saddened by the apparent death of WebOS. For one thing, I honestly believe that there should be a decent competitor to iOS in the market. In my mind WebOS was the best suited to take that role. Secondly, I have always had a soft spot for the erstwhile Palm OS. I was an early adopter of Palm handhelds, and I used a Palm device until the day I bought my first iPhone. I’m going to have to dig out my old Tungsten T3 and have a drink with it.
August 15th, 2011 Jesus tap-dancing Christ, I go off on a four day bender and come back to find that Google has up and bought Motorola. What in Satan’s name is this world coming to. Most of the punditocracy seems to think that this is a play for Moto’s patent portfolio. I’m not of the mood to put much thought into the whole thing, so I’ll just link to Nilay Patel’s analysis of the patent implications. Now, excuse me while I go break the news to my old Moto RAZR. Continue reading And Then That Happened
July 26th, 2011 Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has finally arrived, bringing with it some of the most significant changes in the Mac user interface since OS X debuted a decade ago. Predictably the response from a large segment of the tech punditocracy has been fear, loathing and nerd rage. Ever since Steve Jobs gave a brief preview of Lion at a special event in October 2010 there have been pundits claiming that the new interface features represented the “iOSification” of the Mac. Harry Marks does a good job of addressing that claim on his blog so I will refrain from getting into that debate here. I do, though, want to address a point that I feel is getting missed by those bemoaning the changes in Lion. Continue reading An Abstract Argument
July 13th, 2011 If it wasn’t blindingly obvious before, it should be by now that the mafioso scumbags behind Lodsys really think that they deserve a cut of every shekel that trades hands on the Internet. Hopefully the independent developers out there will clue in to the fact that Apple can’t save them from this, and negotiating with these cock-suckers will only guarantee that they demand a bigger cut down the road. It’s time to organize and fight back.
July 7th, 2011 Via the infallible Josh Topolsky: My gosh he must be right! Apple is known far and wide for their devotion to the “Pro” market
June 7th, 2011 On Monday Seve Jobs and a host of Apple executives delivered the highly anticipated keynote address to the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. There are plenty of recaps of the annuncements available and I have no interest in running though the bullet points here. If, by some miracle you’re unaware of what was announced, this slideshow from Macworld should fill you in. What I want to comment on specifically is the iCloud announcement. I believe that, despite the stupid name, iCloud will prove to be as groundbreaking as anything else announced at the Keynote. I also suspect that iCloud will ultimately be one of the most important announcements that Apple has ever made. Continue reading On Cloud Nine
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